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Yoda and Luke are walking through the swamp. Part of their usual training course involves shimmying along a cliff ledge, but today, there's a long break in the ledge they can't cross.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says.
 
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape. He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
 
When they get back to Yoda's hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda's garden.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
 
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda's home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He's used all his forks but one, he discovers.
 
"That's ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. "I'll write us a note reminding us to buy more." So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
 
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror. "Master Yoda!" he asks. "What did I do wrong?"
 
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!"

Yoda and Luke are walking through the swamp. Part of their usual training course involves shimmying along a cliff ledge, but today, there's a long break in the ledge they can't cross.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says.
 
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape. He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
 
When they get back to Yoda's hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda's garden.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
 
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda's home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He's used all his forks but one, he discovers.
 
"That's ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. "I'll write us a note reminding us to buy more." So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
 
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror. "Master Yoda!" he asks. "What did I do wrong?"
 
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!"

I forgot to mention:
 
Figure out in advance whether you want a fall to be instantly lethal or not before you start the session. You could easily end up with all the PC's falling if the bad guy is skilled or lucky in his attacks. Or if the PC's decide to free climb down the ropes rather than tie themselves securely.
 
You can always choose to have the fall be into a deep and icy pool of water where the cult leader could fish them out, tie them up, and revive them...which leaves you open to run an "escape from the cultist" or a "escape from the slave markets" session later.
 
Instant death from falls is unpopular among PC's outside of some hardcore old school D&D players. And particularly when there's an outside chance of a total party kill-off.
 
You could also have the cult leader unexpectedly die way too quickly, since it's only one guy. Or have the PC's decide after his death that there must be some reason why he picked that particular pit in which to set his trap and want to thoroughly explore the place. Not a bad idea to take some of your existing underground plans (which you expected to use elsewhere) and have a map of that ready too go if the PC's pull a rabbit out of they're hats and kill off the bad guy in the first phase of combat.
 
 
(Sorry, I'm a worrier.)

Yoda and Luke are walking through the swamp. Part of their usual training course involves shimmying along a cliff ledge, but today, there's a long break in the ledge they can't cross.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says.
 
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape. He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
 
When they get back to Yoda's hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda's garden.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
 
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda's home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He's used all his forks but one, he discovers.
 
"That's ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. "I'll write us a note reminding us to buy more." So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
 
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror. "Master Yoda!" he asks. "What did I do wrong?"
 
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!"

George Carlin once famously joked, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
 
Thanks to all those people wearing masks but leaving their noses fully exposed, the stupider half is now a lot easier to spot.

Yoda and Luke are walking through the swamp. Part of their usual training course involves shimmying along a cliff ledge, but today, there's a long break in the ledge they can't cross.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says.
 
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape. He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
 
When they get back to Yoda's hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda's garden.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
 
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda's home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He's used all his forks but one, he discovers.
 
"That's ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. "I'll write us a note reminding us to buy more." So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
 
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror. "Master Yoda!" he asks. "What did I do wrong?"
 
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!"

"I paid more in taxes than Donald Trump" stickers, buttons, and t-shirts now available.
 
https://store.joebiden.com/

Legend has it that the formula has been hidden in a vault at the Sun Trust Bank in downtown Atlanta since 1925.
 
Maybe in the Star Trek timeline, the bank was taken out by a nuke. 
 
Or maybe, just maybe, that's how Colonel Green rose in the first place! A daring bank robbery gave him the secret formula for Coca-Cola and he used that to vault himself into power.
 
My God, it's a story worthy of Pinky and the Brain!

I was thinking it was made so the studio could continue to hold the rights, like later properties Marvel had sold off, and that the studio had pulled it before theatrical release. But I'm not a big "behinds the scenes" movie buff to know a lot of trivia.
 
Edit:
Wikipedia says the film rights swapped studios in mid-production and had multiple re-writes (makes you wonder how bad the versions were which never made it to film).
 
After the film was finished, it was held for two years with the theatrical release date being pushed back repeatedly. It was finally released in the US as direct-to-video with no theatrical release. Internationally, it had a limited release in theaters.

Silence is golden.
 
Duct tape is silver.

Yes. I may have mentioned that I'm poor.
 
In my most "lucrative" years of freelance game writing, though, I paid more than $750 on the pittance I received from White Wolf and Hero Games. Self-employment tax is kind of a bitch.
 
Dean Shomshak

Lying to a court is not an "affair". Nor is sexual harassment an "affair".
 
At least not in the United States, your country may vary.
 
 
"But it's simply not on the same order of magnitude as what Donald Trump has done, and so far gotten away with."
 
Well, I was arguing that Trump should have been impeached from the first month of his presidency when he first started putting up his Secret Service detail in his hotel properties and charging the government for it since that was the first time I could identify that he did something which was unconstitutional and impeachable. It took the Washington Post until after Trump's impeachment to "break" that story to the public.
 
So you aren't going to get any argument from me about the fact that Trump should have been removed from office long ago.
 
I'm not really much on "orders of magnitude" when it comes to impeachment. I'm an idealist. When a president does something which is impeachable I believe it is the duty of the members of the House in both parties to impeach him and that it's the duty of members of the Senate to remove him from office.
 
I've got my own opinion about why the Democrats still haven't attempted to impeach Trump over illegally enriching himself, even though we have government documents (already in hand, no investigation needed) showing that he's guilty.

I'm very excited about it.

Professor X ask a girl, "So, what's your mutant power?"
 
Girl: "I can guess how many pulls to turn a ceiling fan off on the first try!"
 
Professor X: "Oh, really?"
 
Girl [points up]: " Two pulls"
 
Professor X: [stands up and pulls twice] "Not bad kid, but not a power."
 
Girl: "I'm kidding, I can heal paraplegics"
 
Professor X: [still standing] "HOLY CRAP!"

Professor X ask a girl, "So, what's your mutant power?"
 
Girl: "I can guess how many pulls to turn a ceiling fan off on the first try!"
 
Professor X: "Oh, really?"
 
Girl [points up]: " Two pulls"
 
Professor X: [stands up and pulls twice] "Not bad kid, but not a power."
 
Girl: "I'm kidding, I can heal paraplegics"
 
Professor X: [still standing] "HOLY CRAP!"

After the election, I'm moving to Greenwich, England.
 
I don't know what I'll do in the mean time.

Well you kind of expect this from purely political people who are in purely political jobs.
 
But we aren't used to seeing the CDC throw aside its reputation for professionalism and trustworthiness which it has spent decades accumulating. We knew it was going to be documented how it happened at some point because we could see it happening. But it's still a shock.
 
I'm glad the underlying science and layers of checks on the work-on-the-ground are still working properly and that it appears that the problem lies only at the top rather than deeper. You can fix problems which are limited to one person. On the other hand, it would have been tough as hell if we would have had to replace everyone in the CDC from top to bottom in order to get trustworthy work from them again.

Don't be as afraid to breathe in the wildfire smoke since they're burning up pot farms which are worth millions.
 
https://news.yahoo.com/californias-largest-ever-fire-threatens-232009508.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHDIgWy_2l_dkrBn9Ek2CDobSy8K2BlK2sK5_Rn1gznF4kKgb_XnTS65QlBm80bZiHFnrmQ_Yy9ohM6FV26eSPKtATIy9ZTIwuU9QbxzVsKqF-gVD-zggS72ZHRWCimgKxdZzA6sMkJJM5SJ17KyXC6fp-9-vM7_03XPZn292CgA

Well you kind of expect this from purely political people who are in purely political jobs.
 
But we aren't used to seeing the CDC throw aside its reputation for professionalism and trustworthiness which it has spent decades accumulating. We knew it was going to be documented how it happened at some point because we could see it happening. But it's still a shock.
 
I'm glad the underlying science and layers of checks on the work-on-the-ground are still working properly and that it appears that the problem lies only at the top rather than deeper. You can fix problems which are limited to one person. On the other hand, it would have been tough as hell if we would have had to replace everyone in the CDC from top to bottom in order to get trustworthy work from them again.

Ron Paul appears to have had a stroke during a livestream on his YouTube channel.
 
https://www.eagnews.org/2020/09/video-ron-paul-appears-to-suffer-stroke-during-livestream/
 
I can't say I agreed with him all the time (where's my rolleyes emojii).
 
But after he retired from Congress, I would have loved to have given him an independent government post to investigate and nail departments which were spending lavishly on entertainment, redecorating, business trips for "meetings" which happen to be at resorts, etc.
 
I think that work would have made him deliriously happy and it would have saved the government millions of dollars a year which could be put toward more worthy causes.

Don't be as afraid to breathe in the wildfire smoke since they're burning up pot farms which are worth millions.
 
https://news.yahoo.com/californias-largest-ever-fire-threatens-232009508.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHDIgWy_2l_dkrBn9Ek2CDobSy8K2BlK2sK5_Rn1gznF4kKgb_XnTS65QlBm80bZiHFnrmQ_Yy9ohM6FV26eSPKtATIy9ZTIwuU9QbxzVsKqF-gVD-zggS72ZHRWCimgKxdZzA6sMkJJM5SJ17KyXC6fp-9-vM7_03XPZn292CgA

This is long but it will be the best 12.5 minutes of your life if you really want to understand coronavirus in the US.
 
I'd also note, though the video doesn't, that Smithfield is owned by a Chinese company and exports a significant fraction of their product.
 
If you'd like to see her original reporting on "what the heck is going on with the CDC" from May 1st, I'll add a link for that. But it took her from May 1 until September 21st to get answers (and she apologized to her staff on-air for being so obsessed with this story that she drove them nuts over these months trying to get information for her). https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/marked-change-in-tone-in-cdc-meat-plant-reports-raises-questions-82911301638

A divorced lady in her early 40's, out for a walk in the countryside, stumbles over an oddly shaped bottle. Picking it up and rubbing it lightly to see what it is, there’s a puff of smoke and a pixie appears from the bottle neck.
 
"Wow, that’s a relief,” says the pixie, “I’ve been in there ages. Your legs look tired. How about I give those muscles a rub?”
 
I don’t think so, she says, "How about giving me my youthful looks back again.”
 
The little man shakes his head, "Sorry, I can't do that. But sit on that rock over there and I can work wonders on those calves.”
 
She declines. "How about making me slimmer, with some curves in the right places?"
 
"Sorry, no can do." he replies, "But how about a relaxing shoulder rub?"
 
“How about finding me a caring, thoughtful, handsome man, then?”
 
"I can’t do that either, but my back rubs are just delightful,” he offers.
 
Annoyed she gives him a glare, "What is it with you? I ask 3 wishes, you can't grant any. What kind of a genie are you?"
 
"Hey, who said I'm a genie?" says the little man, "I'm a massage in a bottle."

There was an old man who lived by a forest. As he grew older and older, he started losing his hair, until one day, on his deathbed, he was completely bald. That day, he called his children to a meeting.
 
He said, "Look at my hair. It used to be so magnificent, but it's completely gone now. My hair can't be saved. But look outside at the forest. It's such a lovely forest with so many trees, but sooner or later they'll all be cut down and this forest will look as bald as my head."
 
"What I want you to do..." the man continued. "Is, every time a tree is cut down or dies, plant a new one in my memory. Tell your descendants to do the same. It shall be our family's duty to keep this forest strong."
 
So they did.
 
Each time the forest lost a tree, the children replanted one, and so did their children, and their children after them.
 
And for centuries, the forest remained as lush and pretty as it once was, all because of one man and his re-seeding heirline.

There are two types of countries in this world.....
 
Those that use the metric system, and those that have set foot on the moon.